TOP GOLDEN GLOBES MOMENT - Meryl Streep’s speech excoriating Donald Trump and defending the press was the talk of Twitter last night. “Thank you Hollywood foreign press. … You, and all of us in this room really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now: Hollywood, foreigners and the press,” said Streep, accepted a lifetime achievement award bestowed each year by from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes. “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts.”

Streep also addressed Donald Trump’s infamous mocking of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. “There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There was nothing good about it, but it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment, when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country, imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to right back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”

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Big applause during this part: “We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press, and it’s why there are press freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, ’cause we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’re gonna need us to safeguard the truth.” Full video: http://bit.ly/2i8x3T0

JARED KUSHNER IN THE SPOTLIGHT - The New York Times and New York magazine are both out with big features about the 35-year-old real estate scion turned newspaper publisher turned top adviser to the leader of the free world. The Times investigation, which was the lead story of Sunday’s print edition, probes “potential conflicts of interest” and “the ethical thicket he would have to navigate while advising his father-in-law on policy that could affect his bottom line.” The New York mag piece, by Andrew Rice, which is this week’s cover story, focuses on Kushner’s ideological and social transformation over the past year, as he evolved from “socially striving young businessman with inoffensively Bloombergian political values” into one of the most powerful figures in the presidential orbit. Times: http://nyti.ms/2iXWI1T New York: http://nym.ag/2i6vQIg

RUSSIA’S ‘NEW DARK ART’ - “By releasing documents that would tarnish Hillary Clinton and other American political figures, but whose news value compelled coverage, Moscow exploited the very openness that is the basis of a free press,” Max Fisher writes in his latest Interpreter column for the Times. “Its tactics have evolved with each such operation, some of which are still unfolding. … Great powers have long meddled in one another’s affairs. But Russia, throughout 2016, developed a previously unseen tactic: setting up fronts to seed into the press documents it had obtained by hacking.” http://nyti.ms/2j6SLoV

Jim Rutenberg wants to know: “[W]hat’s up with [Julian] Assange, who seems equally comfortable being a hero of the American left as he is being one of the American right, or even of Russian Putinists? What does he want, anyway?” http://nyti.ms/2iT471W

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES THIS YEAR - “I think readers will continue to see more exploration of ways to tell stories, a continuing emphasis on video and multimedia online, and more of an effort in which we acknowledge the phone is a completely different medium than print,” executive editor Dean Baquet told public editor Liz Spayd in an interview published in her column yesterday. “Also, I think people will see more changes in the print New York Times.” On looming newsroom cuts: “My goal is to keep as many people as we can whose work is to gather news. Who write stories, cover the world, take video.” On reaching 10 million digital subscriptions: “I don’t think that’s unreasonable. I don’t know when that will be, but it’s not unreasonable.” On tweeting: “I’ve got to figure out a way to get a better handle on the staff’s use of social media. I think that’s an issue for us. I don’t think there’s a way around it.” http://nyti.ms/2i6vZeZ

MAER ROSHAN IS EDITING A MAGAZINE AGAIN - Morning Media has learned that the first issue of four-year-old Los Angeles-based glossy FourTwoNine with Roshan as EIC is set to hit stands later this week, featuring Trevor Noah on the cover and stories including Rich Juzwiak on Michael Alig and James Kirchuk on the alt-right. Another new addition to FourTwoNine’s masthead? A.J. Daulerio (subject of a dark and revealing profile in Esquire’s February issue), who’s listed as executive editor. It would appear to be the former Gawker editor’s first gig -- as far as we can tell -- since emerging from the wreckage of the Gawker-Hulk Hogan sex-tape-trial.

Roshan has rolled out a couple of digital ventures in recent years (addiction/recovery website The Fix and short-lived iPad mag Punch!), but he hasn’t been at the helm of a print title since Radar, which he founded in 2003, and of which Roshan served as editor in chief until 2008, when Radar’s print edition folded for a third time and it morphed into the celebrity gossip website now known as Radar Online. Apparently Roshan has been at FourTwoNine, which bills itself as “a literate and thoroughly up-to-the-minute men’s brand aimed at thought influencers and cultural leaders,” (“Vice meets Vanity Fair” is how Roshan’s been describing it around town), for the past few months.

The quarterly, created in 2013 by Surface magazine founder Richard Klein as part of Klein’s LGBT professional network, dot429, was previously edited by Kevin Sessums, the ’90s-era star Vanity Fair writer who parted ways with FourTwoNine in 2015. As for Daulerio, we hear Roshan brought him on board to revamp the mag’s website and that he’s now primarily a contributor, based out of L.A. Reached last week, Roshan said he couldn’t talk about FourTwoNine just yet but that there would be more to share soon.

REVOLVING DOOR:

-- Morning Media pal and former colleague Jason Horowitz, writer of many a memorable candidate feature, is shifting to a new role at The New York Times now that the election is over: Rome bureau chief, “covering Italy, the Vatican and Europe in interesting times,” as he tweeted on Friday. This is a return for Horowitz, who was a reporter for the Times in Rome for a few years before his 2005 move to The New York Observer (where we worked together before he left for The Washington Post in 2009). Congrats!

-- Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor turned charter-school crusader, is Facebook’s new head of news partnerships. [NYT]

-- Roy Greenslade’s media blog for The Guardian is ending after a 10-year run. [Press Gazette]

-- Also Guardian-related: Gennady Kolker, who ran communications for the U.S. operation throughout the N.S.A./Edward Snowden affair, is headed to HBO as a growth editor after his similar role at Fusion came to an end in a recent downsizing. [Twitter]

-- BuzzFeed Berlin: “We’re looking for an experienced news editor to lead our German news coverage, manage a small team of reporters in Berlin, and run overall editorial operations in Germany.” [job listing]

ANONYMOUS SOURCE HUNT - Los Angeles magazine and The Los Angeles Times are warring over an unflattering profile of the latter published in the December issue of the former. Without getting into the weeds here, top LAT editors wrote letters to Los Angeles mag objecting to the piece, “What’s the Matter with the L.A. Times?,” on the grounds that it was “misguided” and unfair. Reporter Ed Leibowitz defended the story in a response published Friday on lamag.com. It should give anyone who’s interested a pretty granular understanding of the beef. http://bit.ly/2i0kk1f

Here’s the most notable part: The Times tried to get Los Angeles to give up its anonymous sources by offering to waive a non-disparagement clause cited as the reason they would not speak on the record. “I had given each confidential source my word that his or her name would not be revealed; the Times’ last-minute proposal to throw out its own gag order didn’t change that commitment,” Leibowitz writes. “Nor could I have assured my sources that their former employer’s offer would protect them from legal action.”

From LAT’s pre-publication letter to Los Angeles, shared with Morning Media: “We haven’t been given a fair opportunity to respond to many points raised by Mr. Leibowitz, because of his heavy reliance on anonymous sources. He says that he can’t let us know the names or former positions of any of these sources, because many, he says, have non-disclosure agreements with The Times. We would like to get rid of that excuse by hereby waiving the nondisclosure agreement for any anonymous sources for any criticisms they have, as long as they don’t slander The Times. Not just us, but your readers should know whether these sources have an axe to grind.”

SOUND BITES:

-- “There's a lesson … and that lesson is, we don't just blindly and uncritically accept the claims of the intelligence community, especially provocative claims about a foreign adversary, without seeing convincing evidence presented by them that those claims are true.” [Glenn Greenwald]

-- “‘Fake news’ has had its 15 minutes of fame. Let’s put this tainted term out of its misery.” [Margaret Sullivan]

-- “Cable news anchors have to stop letting Kellyanne Conway deflect. They let her go off topic all the time and she just spouts propaganda.” [Elizabeth Spiers]

-- “They used to call me ‘Gayle King, Eyewitness News’ because I’d call and say, ‘Oprah, turn on the TV, O.J. is on the run.’” [Gayle King]

NAT HENTOFF, 1925-2016 - “Sad to report the death of my father #NatHentoff tonight at the age of 91,” the legendary former Village Voice columnist’s son tweeted Saturday night. “He died surrounded by family listening to Billie Holiday.” NYT obit: “The Hentoff bibliotheca reads almost like an anthology: works by a jazz aficionado, a mystery writer, an eyewitness to history, an educational reformer, a political agitator, a foe of censors, a social critic. He was — like the jazz he loved — given to improvisations and permutations, a composer-performer who lived comfortably with his contradictions, although adversaries called him shallow and unscrupulous and even his admirers sometimes found him infuriating, unrealistic and stubborn.” http://nyti.ms/2iVm3cC

-- Plagiarism alert: “Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book.” [KFile]

-- “German media and politicians have warned against an election-year spike in fake news after the rightwing website Breitbart claimed a mob chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ had set fire to a church in the city of Dortmund on New Year’s Eve.” [AFP]

--Frederic Filloux: “I am a huge fan of Medium. Notwithstanding the recently announced layoffs, I remain optimistic about its survival. Here are my reasons for such hopefulness, and suggestions for the platform’s future.” [Monday Note]